sandgrouse
Noun
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Pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young (synset 101818242)
is a type of: columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toessubtypes:
- painted sandgrouse, pterocles indicus - sandgrouse of India
- pin-tailed grouse, pin-tailed sandgrouse, pterocles alchata - sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers
- pallas's sandgrouse, syrrhaptes paradoxus - Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly
belongs to: family pteroclididae, pteroclididae - sandgrousessame as: sand grouse
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